The Downside of Loving - A Valentine's Day Album for Lovers (and Love Haters)

MC Gums, aka one half of the hip hop duo Ugly Tarantino, released a special Valentine's Day album today. The Downside Of Loving is a concept album produced by The Infamous Tito Sanchez from Los Angeles. Gums and Tito walk you through a story seasoned with lust, love, and heartbreak, closed with an internal metamorphosis. The album is a throwback, soul-inspired EP that plays like a series of chapters in a private book of memoirs. So pour a heavy handed glass of scotch and enjoy this collection as an appetizing prelude to much more to come from the duo.

Listen to The Downside of Loving here.

Obsidian Kings In A Reign of Ashes - A New Mix Tape By Ugly Tarantino

Ugly Tarantino decided to drop a surprise winter mixtape EP because we had nothing better to do. The whole thing materialized way back in December after we had an in depth conversation about how sick we were of hearing about Star Wars and our varying opinions on Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War. The first track we recorded was a freestyle over Czarface's "Air Em Out" beat and the rest of the tracks fell in line after that. Some of the songs are b-sides or tracks we coudn't fit on our upcoming LP. The title, Obsidian Kings In A Reign of Ashes, is our attempt at poetically saying, you're responsible for your own mess, which came to be the lyrical theme of the songs.

Check out Obsidian Kings In A Reign of Ashes here.